Show I 1 j PERCY HAr MONDS MOND'S l S 'S E AE 9 I I OW o O ow 1 05 ov The Th annual midsummer lacunae along Broadway Broad Is now at an end and in- in incandescent In Incandescent and In n of ferocious candescent bulbs are arc replacing the comfortable gloom that for tor nigh a month shrouded the erns Brit Ing rt- rt ca caverns erns of the Forties The Ing on the billboards leads cads I doom to all alt who ho have been the thesyl syl sylan an terrains and the bosly COerts CO erts and there will 1 b be no to- to re release lease henceforward The estimators estimators 0 ors ra of the mimes are f In n the slime same mental orientation as the tho Sene- Sene Sene gambian In Jail jaU who ho asked a new new- newcomer newcomer comer corner how long he was as In for Sixty days responded the new new- new ne newcomer comer corner comer Data Dats s said the theother theother theother other Ahm here from now from now on New ew ventures are plotted by bythe bythe bythe the producers and the of the press agent Is beard In the theland theland land The Hat t of enterprises s In for Immediate sen selling Ing is kilometers long already alread and includes the Scandinavian Ion the Czech Crech the Io the Teutonic the tho Anglo Savon and Ab the tho Musco Muscovite Ite the Celtic the Gallic and the Yiddish as well ell as the merely lo al Already the temper of the nee ne offerings Is h changing The hur burl burl- burli burl ly Is taking on weight and the present preponderance of sprIghtly carousals ls Is shadowed j b by sterner stuff The comedies Without music have to ar- ar arrise rhe ar-rhe rise rh e and soon the bus boss bos bo 8 J 1 willbe be staggering under ponderous reticules full of drama The sere acre and yellow ell ellow OW Is presaged pre With the years the routine doesn't change except to get a little slicker and there are an- an annually annually an annually a few more theatres to be opened and shut Vie e e whirl around Ilk like squirrels In a ret re 01 oil oiling ing wheel DUG DIAGNOSES OF I INANITION ANITION Perhaps the Industrialists of the drama are making up In their present frenzy for tor the slack slack- slackness slackness ness nes of Jul July which It was noted did very i cry ery bad business following a rather lethargic spring As A early as May there was ae walling and gnashing of teeth and the thO chir- chir chir had hardly time to count out the flickering pulse pule of ot one expiring opus before they were called to the tho bedside of ot another 1 There here were sere ere demises on every street treet and the cadavers were shoveled Into their eternal homes Ith alth as little ceremony aa as during the great plague ear earThe earThe The rigors were traced to many caus cause The theory of ot heat pros pros- prostration held one of ot dlag- dlag diagnosticians dlag The cinema took on Its familiar aspect of o flaming ee and claws and other appurtenances appurtenances nances nancee of inimical and fabulous beasts of ot prey Astute medicos I pointed to the thin wraith ralth of the ale radio er aver Il lulle lulled 1 like the I citizens In ht their dom domestic cubicles and surfeited them with tie the Ish alck-Ish Ish plums of parsimonious Many men held that It was not the tr tropical ether that caused I the Inanition among the theatres noret nor noret let et the thc flickering celluloid nor northe northe the tho drone of the the- loud speaker Iealer They slid acid It was waa the Democrats TilE TIIE STAGE T 1 T DAYI BAY DAY Theatrically speaking it Is Ie no I secret ecret the late Inte convention was wan a washout The party of Jefferson and 1 established e a It at n least one record for when hen it Il closed 10 theatres In a night IlI I Chairman Walsh s notorious gal gavel ga crushed more than the micro micro- microphones microphones phones micro ell phones s in front of him It crushed d Ithe the heats heat's heats hearts blood so the indignant doctors assert out of the sho shoo I business So Inimical were the sentiments of o pertain certain managers that even en the sobriquet of one divertissement So Th's Is Ia Poli Poll was ties Polities was as Instantly metamorphosed m metamorphosed tamor- tamor Into Strange Bed fellows fello 8 a as soon as the embattled dele dole delegates gates Quit to to town ton wn n What hat It tr an anthen th then n will be the possibilities the managers com corn complain complain plain of at tho the polls for fora fora fora a party which blights blight whatever It touches a as an exemplified by Its it effect on a Broadway The Demo Demo- Democrats Democrats arc almost as fatal as the Equity the promoters are assert assert- assertIng asserting ing Mr Ir Morris Gilbert having suc- suc succeeded succeeded suc succeeded the Me rs and Nathan In editing the Smart S 'S I Set t is perhaps more able than I to estimate the this of Dancing Mothers Mi EL Selwyn's new study tudy presumably of dissipation pillion pation amon among the matted HI therefore are ar submitted I sub sub- subjects sub subjects has as those of an authority on pertaining to the sad frivoll frivolities frivolities ties of the tho wo o world hd of ot fashion Mr Ir II Gilbert writes Mrs Mra Westcourt of W V L I I as early as the first act of Dancing Mothers Mothen finds that her herI I domestic life Is a a mockery Her I I husband es her roher with a young person and her daughter gets Jingled on cock ocl cocktails tails In the apartment nt of or a Il man manof manof manof of e evil o ll II repute Instead of oC view view- viewing lew Ing le leI leIng I Ing these the habits habit 1 as typical of life I In the tho Long Island comedy set I Mrs t takes a vory cry ory firm I stand She resents resent her husband husbands a sententious observation that the tho woman of ot forty Is the high priest of oC her sex B X and ind at the curtain of the tho h Is last last- t sF tact act she he sets ets forth for tor Paris and a new now life lICe I following follo the commandments of oC I her heart Her husband and her I daughter nI are e lift lett to whatever con con- consolations con consolations they can find Ind Dancing Mothers has hu the of an ex- ex exceptionally ex exceptionally happy ending throughout the four acts of I the pa 11 there here Is considerable de- de bali dc halt bt on the venerable topics of oC the double standard the younger generation and the moral code of I the young man young the the city distinguish nothing of ot particular nO novelty city In the themes except the thes sweet s reasonableness of ot Mrs The lady whose equipment of persuasions in the first act was ns only a Gladstone bag f f aphorisms strapped strap strap- strapped ped un finally a Qu e ful of ot fiery dart darts and did not hesitate to shoot them All she he could tell tellI I he het daughter at first 1 wets was as that lou girls ht have haic e a definite pur purpose pose to perform and she could mer merely l exhort her to ask k a k God to make you ou a real woman These remarks filled failed to mo e KIttens and It was as Mrs 1 Westcourt s real real- real realization I that they would tall full agaIn which caused her to desert with excellent courtesy and restraint restrain I her hearthstone s Dancing Mothers which Is the work of ot Edgar J Selwyn and Edmund Goulding has a good cast The palm goes to Mary lary bung who presents pre A II neat t and charming II ot of Mrs lr West West- Westcourt Westcourt cst court Helen as os Kittens carries n a souse through two t sets ads very creditably and makes as ap- ap appealinG appealing ap appealing pealing as 08 any one could her IIer slightly ungrateful role John Halliday and Henry Stephenson III are e excellent a as Inver lov r an and father and Norma Mitchell and Elsie Lawson more than meet the exi- exi exigencies exi exigencies geneles of their parts paris While there Is a verv very smart and engrossing climax to the third act it I is III my duty to report that the first two acts seemed Monday night a little slow and the play playon playon on the whole hole unlike the r girdle advertised ad In the I didn't appear to be strong enough to really hold you In |